KOLKATA: Over a century after Jagadish Chandra Bose invented radio communication but saw Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi walk away with the credit, he is set to get his due. The millimetre wavelength frequency that Bose used in his experiment in 1895 is the foundation of 5G that scientists and technologists across the world are now trying to reinvent.
"I take a lot of inspiration from Bengal and Kolkata because it is here that radio communication was born. The mm wave that J C Bose worked on is the backbone of developing 5G. Marconi and Russian scientists Alexander Stepanovich Popov, who were also conducting similar experiments, were working with much lower frequencies. In fact, the technology that Marconi used was developed by Bose," said Ramjee Prasad, professor of Future Technologies for Business Ecosystem Innovation, Aarhus University, Denmark, on the sidelines of the IEEE International 5G Summit in Kolkata on Friday.
